Visual Studio 2013 context menus slow only in web application project
visual-studio-2013
Solution
I am having the same issue as you. Old web projects are effecting and new web projects are ok.
What I found is I am using a lot of NuGet package in the project and local NuGet cache (C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Local\NuGet\Cache) is empty because this is new machine.
I recompile the whole solution. NuGet packages are caching in that folder. After compilation is successfully, problem solved.
I am not sure what is happening but this solve my problem. Strange thing is I need to recompile all solutions. Uncompiled solutions have this issue and after compile, this is gone.
Problem
I recently upgraded from VS 2010 to VS 2013 for a new project. I'm finding that when right-clicking on a folder (but not an individual file) in my Web Application project, it takes about 2 seconds for the context-menu to load. The other dozen or so non-web projects in the solution do not have this performance problem. Additionally, within that slow context menu, if I click on the Add-> item to bring up the sub-menu to add a new view/class/whatever, that menu takes anywhere from 5-10 seconds appear. If from there I think choose something like "New Scaffolding Item", that dialog can take about 30 seconds to appear. Others on my project do not seem to be having this issue, though they've got slightly better hardware and are running Windows 8 (vs me running Windows 7). I've tried disabling the visual experience elements as described here but it did not seem to have an effect. My system only seems to be using about 5GB of the 8GB available RAM, and my CPU Usage never goes above 30%. I've tried disabling ReSharper in case that was somehow causing the slowdown, but it had no effect on performance. How can I fix this huge slowdown? ``` Microsoft Visual Studio Premium 2013 Version 12.0.30501.00 Update 2 Microsoft .NET Framework Version 4.5.50938 Installed Version: Premium LightSwitch for Visual Studio 2013 06191-004-0454001-02932 Microsoft LightSwitch for Visual Studio 2013 Office Developer Tools - May 2014 Update ENU 06191-004-0454001-02932 Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 - May 2014 Update ENU Team Explorer for Visual Studio 2013 06191-004-0454001-02932 Microsoft Team Explorer for Visual Studio 2013 Visual Basic 2013 06191-004-0454001-02932 Microsoft Visual Basic 2013 Visual C# 2013 06191-004-0454001-02932 Microsoft Visual C# 2013 Visual C++ 2013 06191-004-0454001-02932 Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Visual F# 2013 06191-004-0454001-02932 Microsoft Visual F# 2013 Visual Studio 2013 Code Analysis Spell Checker 06191-004-0454001-02932 Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2013 Code Analysis Spell Checker Portions of International CorrectSpell™ spelling correction system © 1993 by Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition Copyright © 1992 Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved. ASP.NET and Web Tools 2013.2.50425 Microsoft Web Developer Tools contains the following components: Support for creating and opening ASP.NET web projects Browser Link: A communication channel between Visual Studio and browsers Editor extensions for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Page Inspector: Inspection tool for ASP.NET web projects Scaffolding: A framework for building and running code generators Server Explorer extensions for Windows Azure Web Sites Web publishing: Extensions for publishing ASP.NET web projects to hosting providers, on-premises servers, or Windows Azure ASP.NET Web Frameworks and Tools 2012.2 4.1.21001.0 For additional information, visit http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=309563 ASP.NET Web Frameworks and Tools 2013 5.1.20409.0 For additional information, visit http://www.asp.net/ Common Azure Tools 1.1 Provides common services for use by Azure Mobile Services and Windows Azure Tools. JetBrains ReSharper 8.2.1 C# Edition build 8.2.1000.4556 on 2014-05-19T16:12:38 JetBrains ReSharper 8.2.1 package for Microsoft Visual Studio. For more information about ReSharper, visit http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/. Copyright © 2003–2014 JetBrains, Inc. NuGet Package Manager 2.8.50313.46 NuGet Package Manager in Visual Studio. For more information about NuGet, visit http://docs.nuget.org/. PreEmptive Analytics Visualizer 1.2 Microsoft Visual Studio extension to visualize aggregated summaries from the PreEmptive Analytics product. SQL Server Data Tools 12.0.30919.1 Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools TechTalk SpecFlow 1.9.3 TechTalk SpecFlow - Binding business requirements to .NET code, http://www.specflow.org Copyright © 2009–2013 TechTalk Windows Azure Mobile Services Tools 1.1 Windows Azure Mobile Services Tools Windows Azure Tools 2.3 Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 - v2.3.20320.1602 Windows Phone 8.1 SDK Integration 1.0 This package integrates the tools for the Windows Phone 8.1 SDK into the menus and controls of Visual Studio. Workflow Manager Tools 1.0 1.0 This package contains the necessary Visual Studio integration components for Workflow Manager. ``` Update: In a hope to fix this, I completely wiped my hard drive and updated to Windows 8. I also upgraded to 16GB of RAM. I then installed just enough software so that I could compile the project. I'm still getting the same slowdown. However, if I create a brand new Web Application, the context menus are speedy. Could something about the project itself cause a slowdown?